We are Ocean

Get into a comfortable position, close your eyes, take a deep, slow breath, feel your diaphragm expanding, and hold that full breath for a moment… then slowly exhale. Repeat this action, but when breathing, focus the breath into your belly button and feel your belly expanding. As you breathe, feel all tension, stress, and worry leaving your body, leaving this moment. When you feel calm and centered, open your eyes and focus on this blog. See and feel the words.

Imagine a world that is fully covered in water—nothing else, just the ocean everywhere. Imagine being a wave on that ocean, moving and flowing among all the other waves, yet your wave is individual and unique. A thought arises: Are you part of the larger, infinite ocean? Though on the surface you're unique and separate, your depths, your roots, go deep and are actually indistinguishable from the rest of the vast ocean. For a time you exist separately as this wave, but eventually your energy dissipates and you once again exist as a whole with the ocean.

Here's a powerful thought: What if humanity were like this ocean? At times rough, violent, powerful, even destructive on the surface with many waves moving in contrast, in conflict, in chaos. But also in harmony, joining other waves heading in the same direction or criss-crossing, making beautiful, perfect shapes and designs in the process.

It’s true that each of us exists as an individual, but we are all a part of a greater existence, whether we call it humanity, love, God, the divine, or the universe. We sometimes feel happy, sad, joyful, or fearful, and we don't know why. Recently scientists confirmed that when people perform certain activities together such as meditation or listening to music, their brain waves synchronize at the Alpha or Delta level. This connectivity is known as interpersonal neural synchronization, and it’s beautiful. I'd argue that our science just hasn’t reached the point of discovering that all humans are connected all the time, constantly exchanging, reflecting, or absorbing energy, even from those across the planet. We are connected in all ways. Now imagine if we used this connectivity for the betterment of our species. I think that we are at the cusp of this breakthrough, and it’s up to each one of us to truly become the ocean of shared humanity.

How can we do this?

By first making a conscious decision to live a connected and harmonious life.

Next, by slowing down, in order to be aware of personal emotions and baggage that we all carry.

When we are ready and I think that we are, we can live Humanity, by Design:

LOVE the self, each other, and the world.

EMBED wellness into every aspect of our lives.

If one of us is suffering, we ALL are.

Measure every decision by its IMPACT on the planet.

RESPECT every species.

HEAL from past trauma and evolve.

This is our time, and we need to embody this connectivity more than ever. Each one of us can make a difference and be a force for positive change in the world.

Love all ways.